Gabe
So, this was what loneliness felt like. It was a strange feeling to me and totally alien. And I had to admit that I didn’t much like it. It was like being nervous or anxious but worse. There was a great hollow empty feeling not just in my gut but in my whole body. Like someone had scooped out my soul and left it back on earth. And maybe that’s exactly what had happened.
I had left my mate behind, to face the perils of her world alone. No, I reminded myself I hadn’t left her behind. She hadn’t come. Fi had promised and yet hadn’t turned up. I would have looked after her our entire lives. I would have loved her until my last breath had left my body and my eyes had closed for the first time.
But she hadn’t come.
More than likely I would never see Fi again, my beautiful witch with
